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Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 List of Figures and Tables 12 List of Contributors 14 Preface: Richard C. Hoffmann, an Appreciation 18 Introduction: Hoffmann in the Historiography of Environmental History 26 Part One: Premodern People and the Natural World 48 Trees, Nuts, and Woods at the End of the First Millennium: A Case from the Amalfi Coast 50 The Great Famine: 1315–1322 Revisited 70 Rabbits Swimming across Borders: Micro-environmental Infrastructures and Macro-environmental Change in Early Modern Holland 88 The Art of Making the Earth Fruitful: Medieval and Early Modern Improvements of Soil Fertility 118 Part Two: Aquatic Ecosystems and Human Economies 140 The Seasonality of Fishing in Medieval Britain 142 Reeling in the Eels at la Trinquetaille near Arles 174 Reaching for a ‘Natural Authority’: The Rhône in Eighteenth-Century Lyon 190 Defining ‘Natural’ Fish Communities for Fishery Management Purposes: Biological, Historical, and Archaeological Approaches 218 Appendix: Richard C. Hoffmann: Works Published, 1971–2008 Compiled by Scott G. Bruce with the help of Ellen Hoffmann and Jean Levy 250 Index 256

Author

Bruce, Scott G.

Published

2010

Language

EN